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‘Problems of Today and Tomorrow’: Prevention and the National Health Service in the 1970s
A consensus developed around prevention in the early 1970s as a response to epidemiological studies that had highlighted smoking, diet and physical inactivity as risk factors for chronic disease, especially heart disease. This reaction was catalysed by the financial pressures the National Health Ser...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7784247/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33424440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz018 |
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description | A consensus developed around prevention in the early 1970s as a response to epidemiological studies that had highlighted smoking, diet and physical inactivity as risk factors for chronic disease, especially heart disease. This reaction was catalysed by the financial pressures the National Health Service (NHS) was experiencing, the 1974 reorganisation of the service and international awareness of the Lalonde report. Such widespread interest resulted in three different but contemporaneous reports on prevention in 1976 and 1977. All three emphasised, to varying degrees, personal responsibility and lifestyle as important tenets of prevention. This article focuses on Prevention and Health: Everybody’s Business, a 1976 discussion paper published by the four governments of the UK, to explore this preoccupation with disease prevention throughout the decade, and what it reveals about public health in Britain, political attitudes to the NHS and the changing relationship between citizenship and the welfare state. |
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spelling | pubmed-77842472021-01-08 ‘Problems of Today and Tomorrow’: Prevention and the National Health Service in the 1970s Clark, Peder Soc Hist Med Original Articles A consensus developed around prevention in the early 1970s as a response to epidemiological studies that had highlighted smoking, diet and physical inactivity as risk factors for chronic disease, especially heart disease. This reaction was catalysed by the financial pressures the National Health Service (NHS) was experiencing, the 1974 reorganisation of the service and international awareness of the Lalonde report. Such widespread interest resulted in three different but contemporaneous reports on prevention in 1976 and 1977. All three emphasised, to varying degrees, personal responsibility and lifestyle as important tenets of prevention. This article focuses on Prevention and Health: Everybody’s Business, a 1976 discussion paper published by the four governments of the UK, to explore this preoccupation with disease prevention throughout the decade, and what it reveals about public health in Britain, political attitudes to the NHS and the changing relationship between citizenship and the welfare state. Oxford University Press 2019-02-21 /pmc/articles/PMC7784247/ /pubmed/33424440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz018 Text en © The Author(s) 2019. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Society for the Social History of Medicine. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Clark, Peder ‘Problems of Today and Tomorrow’: Prevention and the National Health Service in the 1970s |
title | ‘Problems of Today and Tomorrow’: Prevention and the National Health Service in the 1970s |
title_full | ‘Problems of Today and Tomorrow’: Prevention and the National Health Service in the 1970s |
title_fullStr | ‘Problems of Today and Tomorrow’: Prevention and the National Health Service in the 1970s |
title_full_unstemmed | ‘Problems of Today and Tomorrow’: Prevention and the National Health Service in the 1970s |
title_short | ‘Problems of Today and Tomorrow’: Prevention and the National Health Service in the 1970s |
title_sort | ‘problems of today and tomorrow’: prevention and the national health service in the 1970s |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7784247/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33424440 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/shm/hkz018 |
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